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Crooks are exploiting unpatched Android flaw to drain users’ bank accounts

December 3, 2019

Hackers are actively exploiting StrandHogg, a newly revealed Android vulnerability, to steal users’ mobile banking credentials and empty their accounts, a Norwegian app …

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Google ups bug bounties for Android flaws, exploits

November 22, 2019

Google has expanded the Android Security Rewards (ASR) program and increased the bug bounties it’s willing to award for certain kinds of exploits. About the Android …

Checkmarx research

Android camera apps could be hijacked to spy on users

November 19, 2019

A vulnerability in the Google Camera app may have allowed attackers to surreptitiously take pictures and record videos even if the phone is locked or the screen is off, …

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Mobile security firms will help protect Google Play

November 7, 2019

Google has partnered with mobile security companies ESET, Lookout and Zimperium to identify potentially harmful and unwanted apps before they are listed on Google Play. …

Researcher releases PoC rooting app that exploits recent Android zero-day

October 17, 2019

Late last month Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone detailed a zero-day Android privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-2215) and revealed that it is actively …

Android explode

Unpatched Android flaw exploited by attackers, impacts Pixel, Samsung, Xiaomi devices

October 4, 2019

A privilege escalation vulnerability affecting phones running Android 8.x and later is being leveraged by attackers in the wild, Google has revealed. Interestingly enough, the …

Android

Security hole opens a billion Android users to advanced SMS phishing attacks

September 4, 2019

Check Point Research has revealed a security flaw in Samsung, Huawei, LG, Sony and other Android-based phones that leaves users vulnerable to advanced phishing attacks. The …

Google Play

Google will pay for data abuse reports related to popular Android apps, Chrome extensions

August 30, 2019

Google is expanding the Google Play Security Reward Program (GPSRP) to include all apps in Google Play with 100 million or more installs, and is launching a new Developer Data …

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Protecting iOS and Android applications in a fully automated way

August 20, 2019

In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2019, Dave Belt, Technology Evangelist at Irdeto, and Jaco du Plooy, VP Cloakware at Irdeto, discuss the current …

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As attackers get more creative, mobile threats and attacks increase in both quantity and impact

August 5, 2019

It is no longer a matter of if or when an enterprise’s mobile endpoints will be compromised. They already are and most organizations have little to no knowledge or visibility …

FaceApp

FaceApp privacy panic: Be careful which apps you use

July 18, 2019

The privacy panic over FaceApp, the selfie-editing mobile app that makes photo subjects younger, older or turns them into members of the opposite sex, has been overblown. The …

Android apps

High-risk vulnerabilities found in 1/3 of iOS apps, nearly half of Android apps

June 21, 2019

Expert testing of iOS and Android mobile applications shows that in most cases, insecure data storage is the most common security flaw in mobile apps. Positive Technologies’ …

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